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by alrs 15y ago
This is no longer the case, from my reading. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-bsd/all/all
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by alrs 15y ago
The Debian and the PostgreSQL planets are consistently good: http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.postgresql.org/
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by alrs 15y ago
"We’re a bit surprised that the key was disabled almost immediately after we reached the limit. " YCombinator founders are developing a reputation for weasel-word bullshit. Ditch the victim act.
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Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers(w3techs.com)
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by alrs 15y ago
I find Steve Jobs repellent, but he was once committed to manufacturing hardware in the United States. The minor undercurrent of criticism since his passing has been Apple's manufacturing vendors in Asia. Forgotten is the drag on NeXT by i
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by alrs 15y ago
If you're missing pf you might check out Debian/KFreeBSD. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
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by alrs 15y ago
I'm happy with Firefox 3.5.16 in Debian stable. I have no problem visiting websites, and I don't have to sweat Vimperator breaking because of a browser rev. I think that caring about the latest browser version is the domain of webdevs and
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Stallman: GPL ramifications and purpose(groups.google.com)
52 points by alrs 15y ago|17 comments
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by alrs 15y ago
Hi, I'm Lars.
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How America Spies On Europe For Its Oldest Friend, The Dollar (2000)(independent.co.uk)
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by alrs 15y ago
This would be fun if we weren't building their dataset for them.
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by alrs 15y ago
Steve Wozniak, John Carmack, Linus Torvalds: yes. Steve Jobs: no. Maybe the Ray Kroc of his generation?
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by alrs 15y ago
Snow Leopard is the Windows 2000 of the NeXTSTEP operating systems, the best example of the series before the inevitable decline.
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by alrs 15y ago
vim has syntax highlighting.
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by alrs 15y ago
Steve Jobs is not an engineer. "Technologist" is sufficiently squishy that I can't make an argument against it, but I can cite Stross in "Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing." Stross has a good anecdote about how Jobs didn't know how to use
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by alrs 15y ago
Infinite scrolling makes me nauseous. I literally feel sick to my stomach when the bottom of the page is always yanked out of my grasp, Sisyphus-style.
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by alrs 15y ago
I do this for a living, and I've used Debian-packaged Ruby wherever I've gone. I haven't experienced issues.
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by alrs 15y ago
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
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by alrs 15y ago
Debian allows you to install ruby MRI and jruby simultaneously.
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by alrs 15y ago
apt-get install ruby1.9. It's in there.
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by alrs 15y ago
Apt-pinning and source packages are great ways to bring newer Ruby in to Debian stab The first thing I did after you left our common former employer was ditch all of the manually-installed REE on Ubuntu and changed to Debian stable with .de
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by alrs 15y ago
Because going back to non-packaged non-vetted flavor-of-the-month code is a retrograde step back to 1993. You lose consistency, you lose the ability to reliably recreate a same environment, you lose tested and low-friction security updates
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by alrs 15y ago
RVM belongs nowhere near production. It exists so that the guys with the macbooks can sync up versions with what is happening in the Linux distro, not the reverse.
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by alrs 15y ago
This is exactly my answer to why I don't watch TV. "It's not because I am good, it is because I am a filthy addict who can't handle it."
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by alrs 16y ago
I feel very strongly about this. I've done good business coming in and mopping up messes after people that attempt to deploy applications this way. I'll follow up after I'm done with Christmas celebrations, but to think that a random hodge